There are ongoing negotiations to buy Venezuelan oil because the Joe Stolen/”Que mala” Harris regime is stupid, the kind of stupid that cannot be fixed.
The US should ramp up its own internal exploration, extraction, transport and refining of petroleum, and expanding the network for distribution of natural gas to EVERY corner of the US, including the Northeast corridor, over the resistance of New York State to all gas pipelines crossing their state. Talk about a dog in the manger.
We should be shipping liquified natural gas to every port in the world equipped to handle LNG, and undercutting the Nordstream pipelines in price and volume, ending the revenue flow that is paying for the Russian excursion into the Ukraine. There are highly effective economic levers that can be used to break the Russian Federation and by extension, drive Putin from office, that are simply not being used.
Full tilt domestic energy production at warp speed could alleviate a lot of suffering, present and future, for us and the world. If only the simpletons and neoconservative warmongers would lobby for this action rather than perpetual war our children would have a brighter future.